Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-22
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vet, In spite OF the warfare against them,
| they are increasing in number aud are be-
| coming veritabe plague to the MERGED and
| Fresno farmers.
| HERCULES 1t was who when lusty little
| babe strangled the serpent that sought to
crush him. That was we'll enough for the
| ancients. but IN order to see how far we are
ahead Of Them. just read this: Edward
| Wells, of GeneseO, ll., is wearing black eye
| gwen him by his S-year-old son."
| LEANDER SMITH, an aged citizen of Milan,
Ind. deo not long ago, and the administrator
| OF his estate. in taking an inventory and ap-
| praising the effects, discovered a large
| amount of hidden treasure, 81 $50 of old gold
| coin being found in jar of rancid lard, while
| other large sums were found secreted in other
| places.
| FRANKLIN HINKLEY, of Fail Mountain, is q
| good subject for the hair restorers. He was
| i'll for some time with disease of the spine,
| and the hair of his head, beard, moustache
eyebrows, and eveashes all came out. and
| there is no prospect of its return. He would
make a good photograph to be labeled BE
| fore Using"
Two English butchers, recently arraigned
| for selling meat on the Sabbath tunder an act
| OF Charles Id, ingeniousy pleaded that mas
| much as in the reign of George fl. an act was
| passed taking eleven days from the calendar,
| IL was impossible now to say which was the
| Lords Day under the act of Parliament in
|
THE people of London are whirled from one
part of the British metropolis to another by
underground railway trains. on which the
| fare varies from &c. to &C. The greater pro-
| portion of the tickets are sold for &c. Tho
| trains are run at intervals of from minute
| to minute and half. Nobody has ever
been killed on this underground road. al
! though more than 80 200, 900 passengers are
| Carried over 1t in year,
| A FARMER near Milroy, Pa, removed a
stump from field one day last week. In its
| hollow W as what seemed to be lot of knotted
| rope. After the supposed rope had lain in
| the sun for a short time the farmer discov-
| cred that it W as m ass of copperhead snakes
| twisted and interaced together with the
| heads outward. 1t is reported that he
| killed them and found that there were just
| 1873. It's a pity he couldn't have made it an
| even 200.
The other night at Hanover N. H., Arthur
Chase, Jr., Dartmouth College sophomore,
got up in his sleep and broke the window of
his room, cutting mis- hands badly. and then
jumped from the second story to the ground.
| The deep snow broke his fall He then ran
| up the street, and, coming back, pounded ON
| the doors of his house until he fell fainting
| Next day he was none the worse for his per-
] torrance, though 1t was an entirely new
| thing for him.
THE editor of prominent paper in large
Western city recently received letter from
| a young graduate of an Eastern college, ask
| ing for position. He began his letter as fol-
| lows: You may be surprised that should be
| willing to leave civilization and go out West"
The editor replied that he wasn't bit Sup
prised;" the number of fools was getting to
| be so great in the East that they naturally
| thought of ENGRAVING to some place where
| there were not SO many.
A GUEST of the Fountain House, In Cheboy-
| gan, Mich, says he was once driving a road
| sprinkler through the woods, when six wolves
attacked him. They had killed his horses,
| and he was at his Wits end to know how TO
| escape, when happy thought struck him,
| Raising up the trap door on the top of the
| sprinkler he plunged into the water. He lay
| there all night, soaked through and exhaust
! ed, until a couple OF hunters came up and
| drove the animals away.
Two more men have lived long enough to
attract attention. james Crowther, of Perry,
| o., has just celebrated his Tooth birthday and
is apparently good for several years more.
| Henry Bonneau, a Frenchman OF New Bed
| ford. lass, claims to be l03 years old. He as
born in the Province of Quebec, where he
married his first wife, by whom he had twelve
children. His eldest child, if he had lived,
would be about 50 years old. He married a
| second time, and five more children were born
| TO him,
TORONTO sHoPLIFTER was recently cap
tured in Montreal, and she panned out re-
| markedly well. In a pocket three feet long
was an assortment of spoons. thread, lace,
and other valuables. Her hustle was formed
| of two bed sheets, lady's beautiful hat, and
| cOlored glass jug. Her trunks contained
| bed clothes, all kinds of wearing apparel
| brushes, combs, over 1000 rolls of thread, a
| large bag OF needles. pins, etc, about fftV
! pounds of soap, M atches, fancy cards glass
| ware, table goods, feathers, bottles, and jars
| of preserves.
CAPT. K. P. LULL, United States navy
| whose death at Pensacola was reported
to the Navy Department few days since,
| will be remembered for his connection with
the Nicaragua canal surveys Of ls72-73 and
| as the writer of the exceedingly valuable re-
| port upon this project, concluding with these
words: The whole region of this sthmus
| has been thoroughly explored. / am fully
| persuaded that no where is there 80 favorable
a combination of advantageous conditions as
| on the line through Nicaragua" Capt. Lull
| had been in the navy more than thirty six
| wears, and at the time of his death was in his
52d year, having been born in February, 1886
| He was native of Vermont, but entered the
! navy in 1851 from Wisconsin.
! RUFUS MAGE, United States Minister to
| Sweden, is in w Washington city. Mr. Magee
IS delighted with his residence in that
i country. He describes the people as being
the most polite and courteous in their social
/ intercourse of any in the world. The most
| cordial good feeling exists between the King
| ana his subjects. The King walks about the
| streets of Stockholm as demOcratIcally and
/ as safely as Gen. Grant during his incum-
| bency of the White House did in Washington
| According to Mr.. Magee policeman's lot in
| Sweden must be a very happy one. During
| the twenty-five months he has resided in
| Stock holm there has not been an arrest for
] drunkenness, murder or a fire. There is no
| country ON the globe where human life has SO
many projections.
| THE Saracen's Head Inn at Towcester, de-
scribed in "Pick wick" still exists in good
| order, though its name has been changed.
| Internally, the kitchen, the scene of the
memorable conflict between the rival editors
| Of the Eatanswlll Gazette and Eatanswlll In
| dependent. has now become the "smoking-
! room.n the only change being that the broad
4 fire place and open chimney, with seats in
| each corner, has disappeared and a modern
crate has been substituted. One who has
| lately visited the place says. 1.-THE two half
| life-size statues of Venus and Apollo still fill
| their inches over the great doors as they have
| done for more than century past, and were
| the subject, within my memory, OF a conyer-
satiOn between a new hostess and the 'hered-
| tary post-b0y, which was worthy OF Sam
| Weller, and would probably have amused
Dickens had IL occurred before his visit
Whose licensees are thosep WAS the lady's
question. 'Well. ma'am, they cal 'em
Junus and Venus; | don't know who thew
were, but you may read about 'em in the
Bible.'"
THERE IS farmer boy over In the town Of